Doris Ferleger, award-winning poet, memoir essayist, and 2009 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County PA, is the author of three other volumes of poetry: Big Silences in a Year of Rain (Main Street Rag, 2010), When You Become Snow (Finishing Line Press, 2011), and As the Moon Has Breath (Main Street Rag 2013). Winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize and the AROHO CNF Prize, among others, her work has been published in numerous literary journals including Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, L.A. Review, and South Carolina Review. She holds an MFA in Poetry and a Ph.D. in Psychology and maintains a mindfulness-based psychotherapy practice in Wyncote, PA.